**4.3 Consumer data (home, standard load profiles; Continuous registration)**

Consumer data, especially small "home" consumers, are read once a year, only. When executing computations with small consumers their hourly values are deduced from yearly readings using standardized methods (standard load profiles, SLP). In all computations – when SLP's are involved – it must be kept in mind that this method influences the accuracy of the computing results when a short time period is considered. Opposite to the former small consumers the big consumers are measured and registered continuously; so computations can be made very accurate even in short periods.
